Hi all,

does anyone know if there is anything special about the WD205AA drives made for Apple (apart from the Apple logo on the WD badge)?
I have one here with a xxBAAx DCM, while all other 205AA I have found yet have a xxANAx. The apple drives use heads 1-3 with head 0 missing. The output of the Apple's preamp look somewhat static and the drive is clicking. I've bought another 00BAA0 on eBay already.

There is nothing special about that product except Apple logo.

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Well, you may be right about THAT particular product.

I've spoken to an engineer at Seagate who confirmed that firmware used on their Momentus series for Apple OEM drives is different than their "regular" builds.

See the following interesting link. I don't think the differences have much of an impact insofar as recovery is concerned, but there are often differences:

http://db.tidbits.com/article/10166

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